Ten years ago, Rob Zombie polarized the horror community with the release of his Halloween, a remake of John Carpenter’s classic film that dove deep into the origin story of the mysterious “shape,” Michael Myers. You may love it. You may hate it.
Either way, it was a MONSTER at the box office.
Now ten years later, Rob Zombie’s Halloween still holds the record for highest-grossing Labor Day Weekend in cinema history. Across the film’s four-day opening weekend back in 2007, Halloween pulled in $30,591,759 at the domestic box office, a number few movies have even come close to reaching in the past ten years.
The closest competitor? That’d be horror film The Possession, which made just over $20 million during 2012’s Labor Day Weekend. As for this year, The Hitman’s Bodyguard leads the lackluster Labor Day pack with a $13,272,712 four-day gross in its third week of release.
Halloween‘s 10-year-long record was celebrated on Zombie’s website this week…
“When Rob Zombie’s Halloween was released over the Labor Day Weekend in 2007, it broke box office records for this holiday weekend in the US. And it has continued to do so year after year. Other movies have tried to beat Halloween, which had a Labor Day box office result of $30.5 million, but they have all failed. Valiant attempts have been made by such contenders as The Possession, Morgan, Lawless, Don’t Breathe and a teeny-tiny pop band called One Direction, but none have managed to topple Big Mike.”
Zombie’s site added, “Good luck to whoever wants to try to take the mantle next year.”
Like the film or not, wins for horror are wins for us all.
